PRODUCTION STANDARDS. 40:01 The right of the Company to establish and to maintain standards of production is fully recognized. The Company shall establish reasonable production standards on a basis of fairness and equity, consistent with quality workmanship, efficiency of operations, and the reasonable working capacity of normal operators. The Company will give proper consideration to the conditions under which standards of production are established and a change of quality, methods, equipment, tooling or material, which results in a substantial change of the job content and/or rate of production will be reason for the Company to change standards of production. Such changes shall be confined to the elements of work or methods which have been changed. The Engineering Department shall establish production standards, basing them on part experience on the same or similar jobs or operations, or by time and motion studies. The Union may question and process a grievance on production standards, following the regular procedure. The Union, in the case of a dispute, shall have the right to bring in representative from the Unifor Engineering Department. An Arbitrator dealing with a production standards grievance shall be a qualified Production Professional Engineer. The Union Plant Committee shall be informed, in writing, the reason for, methods used and all particulars of any change made in production standards at the time such change becomes effective.
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Samples: Collective Agreement, Collective Agreement
PRODUCTION STANDARDS. 40:01 40.01 The right of the Company to establish and to maintain standards of production is fully recognized. The Company shall establish reasonable production standards on a basis of fairness and equity, consistent with quality workmanship, efficiency of operations, operations and the reasonable working capacity of normal operators. The Company will give proper consideration to the conditions under which standards of production are established and a change of quality, methods, equipment, tooling or material, material which results in a substantial change of the job content and/or rate of production will be reason for the Company to change the standards of production. Such changes change shall be confined to the elements of work or methods which have been changed. The Engineering Department shall establish production standards, basing them on part past experience on the same or similar jobs or operations, operations or by time and motion studies. The Union may question and process a grievance on production standards, standards following the regular procedure. The Union, in the case of a dispute, shall have the right to bring in a representative from the Unifor UNIFOR Engineering Department. An Arbitrator dealing with a production standards grievance shall be a qualified Production production Professional Engineer. The Union Plant Committee Cycle time will not be arbitrarily altered. Machine cycle times shall be informed, in writing, the reason for, methods used and all particulars of any change made in production standards at the time such change becomes effectiveposted quarterly.
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Samples: Collective Bargaining Agreement
PRODUCTION STANDARDS. 40:01 The right of the Company to establish and to maintain standards of production is fully recognized. The Company shall establish reasonable production standards on a basis of fairness and equity, consistent with quality workmanship, efficiency of operations, and the reasonable working capacity of normal operators. The Company will give proper consideration to the conditions under which standards of production are established and a change of quality, methods, equipment, tooling or material, which results in a substantial change of the job content and/or rate of production will be reason for the Company to change standards of production. Such changes shall be confined to the elements of work or methods which have been changed. The Engineering Department shall establish production standards, basing them on part experience on the same or similar jobs or operations, or by time and motion studies. The Union may question and process a grievance on production standards, following the regular procedure. The Union, in the case of a dispute, shall have the right to bring in representative from the Unifor CAW Engineering Department. An Arbitrator dealing with a production standards grievance shall be a qualified Production Professional Engineer. The Union Plant Committee shall be informed, in writing, the reason for, methods used and all particulars of any change made in production standards at the time such change becomes effective.
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Samples: Collective Agreement